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Example sentences for: stale

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The aroma is likely to be fishy or stale.
It's the deadly sense of enforced conformity, the stale air that blows in from the stagnant ponds of the Right.
Before long, however, the buck-stops-here cliché grew stale, and the story line changed.
The second free-spirit-mom-on-the-run-with-teen-age-daughter story in three months receives much better reviews than the first ( Anywhere But Here ): It "impresses with its freshly considered action and total avoidance of the stale and routine" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). British stage actress Janet McTeer's performance as the mother stands out, and the low-budget, genuine feeling of the film results in "one of the few movies ever made that doesn't feel like a movie," in which the characters "throb and course with life" (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). (Click to read David Edelstein's review in Slate .)
No topic is so stale that it cannot be reheated: After all, it gets you air time.